CENTRE OF E-GOVERNANCE

A group of 29 students from Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering visited to Centre for e-Governance, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) Electronics Niketan, New Delhi along with two faculty coordinators Mr. K.K.Singh (Associate professor-ECS) and Mrs. Poonam Yadav (Assistant professor-ECS) on October 16th , 2014, with an objective to get information about practices done in e-Governance. The CeG (center of e-Governance) is a part of the Awareness and Communication activity under National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), students were informed about vision of NeGP and Mission Mode Project (MMPs).

In the first presentation students were introduced with e-Governance definition, evolution, policies and most importantly services. After that students came to know about CSC (common services center) infrastructure, Mobile Service Delivery Gateway, e-Pramaan and National Policy on Information Technology. Various e-Projects implemented by central Government were showcased like Banking, Central Excise & Customs, Income Tax (IT), Insurance, Passport, Pension, etc.

Second session was delivered by Mr. Nitin Shaw on BOSS. BOSS is an open source operating system based on Linux kernel developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) available in 22 Indian official languages.

Some of the e-governance projects like MEE-SEVA, SANYOG, ENOVISION were also demonstrated.

In addition to this, Quiz was conducted consisting of general awareness questions wherein top three students got exciting prizes.